Jacques-Rene de Brisay de Denonville

Jacques-Rene de Brisay de Denonville (10 December 1637-22 September 1710) was Governor General of New France from 1685 to 1689, succeeding Joseph-Antoine de La Barre and preceding Louis de Buade de Frontenac.

Biography
Jacques-Rene de Brisay de Denonville was born in Denonville, France in 1637, and he arrived in New France in 1685 to replace Joseph-Antoine de La Barre as Governor General. In 1686, he had his soldiers capture the English trading posts on the Hudson Bay in northern Canada, and he then had 50 Onondaga chiefs arrested at a meeting and sent to France as galley slaves. In 1687, Denonville then launched a military campaign against the Seneca, and his 832 regulars, 900 militia, and 400 Indians advanced on Ganondagan. They defeated a Seneca army, but they found the Seneca villages burned and their livestock killed, and the Seneca would later go on to build new villages, surviving the French campaign. He failed to petition King Louis XIV of France for more troops due to the buildup of the "Grand Alliance" against France, and he was forced to abandon forts as the Iroquois destroyed scores of French farms and settlements. In 1689, Louis de Buade de Frontenac replaced Denonville as Governor General, and he served as a tutor to King Louis' children. He died in 1710.